Souvenir

A crate has been delivered to the Horniman Museum for display – some living thing, exotic and foreign, is trapped inside. Barcodes and export signs refer to categorisation and packaging. The contents of the crate have been wrapped about and disguised still further by pages of The National Geographic Magazine - glossy saturated images of distant lands and the fascinating locals. This art work is itself a commodity which becomes cargo or freight as soon as it leaves the studio.

"The sculpture…carries that most precious cargo, meaning. And we know that meaning is not something fixed and firm but that it changes, depending on our outlook or viewpoint."

Souvenir, 2002. hieght 5m, length 3m, depth 1.7m. Wood, cardboard, paper, fake fur, rope.

Caroline Collier

All images © Hew Locke and DACS 2005

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